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Romans 3:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

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(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?

In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb — "Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital — the Lord has said it. No,

Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

You say, "If my perfidy serves to make the truthfulness of God redound to his glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith;

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed.




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